Fergie: There's Embarrassment In The Dressing Room

Following United’s defeat on derby, Sir Alex Ferguson has claimed that this is his worst ever defeat but than the experience we had on the field should have meant we conceded fewer goals.

“I can’t believe the scoreline. The first goal was a blow for sure but it was retrievable at 1-0,” he said. “The sending off was a killer for us. We kept attacking when we went 4-1 down and we should have just said: ‘We’ve had our day.’ I thought with the experience we had with Rio Ferdinand and Patrice Evra we would have realised that. But we just kept attacking. We were so open. Sometimes there has to be common sense about it. That’s a perfect result for us to react to. There’s a lot of embarrassment in the dressing room today. They’re all disappointed in there, that will make a difference.”

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I'm a united fan but I can't see why anybody wont admit that city goals were all top notch and they killed us. It wasnt the red card or our complacency or tiredness or injuries or bad luck, city were just massive on the day and that silva is pure magic. As much as I think city are scum, we ought to give credit where it's due.

Err is to human yes we played badly but that doesn"t mean we are dead.We are man united and i hope those players understand that too.Remember the day liverpool came calling and beat us 4-1everybody said we are finished.Its good we have been thrashed for now SAF will think & more bring new options coz and we won we would saying how great team we have only to meet with Barca or MARDRID and receive a beating and then start to complain when its too late.ITS A WAKE UP CALL MANCUNIANS.

@fibes what super united should have said is "what's the point of attacking when you're 4-1 down in injury time?"
We turned a bad defeat into a humiliation that we will never be allowed to forget.
The thick bstds don't realise what they've done.
As supporting the team through thick and thin, we all will and we all do. It doesn't mean we have to sit back and say nothing after a performance like that.
Evans is not good enough and never will be. Evra is past it. Ferdinand is past it.
Anderson will only ever be a useful squad member to call on when we're playing the smaller teams.
And this isn't based on one game. If it was then we would be able to say it's just a blip.
But you know, and I know it, we've got too many malingerers in this squad.
We are suffering from years of Glazer rule.

Hi all.
Its best to comment the day after rather than on match days as emotions usually run high.
In the clear light of day,I'm proud of the fact that without our captain-vida,play-maker-clevs and being a man down-evans our lads kept true to the age tried utd ethic of never retreating nor surrendering.we went all out.

Its best to comment the day after rather than on match days as emotions usually run high.
In the clear light of day,I'm proud of the fact that without our captain-vida,playmaker-clevs and being a man down-evans our lads kept true to the age tried and trusted utd ethic of never retreating nor surrendering.we went all out.

Watched the game again - think the problem at the back lies with Rio. The man is no where near as mobile as he was and needs to be to play at our level. As a knock effect on the players around him are not being proactive but are reactive.
This shows from the back going forward - makes the whole team nervous - players are now considering what happens if they move out of position whilst attacking - in the past they were guaranteed cover - now seeing finger pointing.

Need to get the back two central defenders sorted out - for me has to be Smalling and Jones - with Evans as cover. (Definately do feel Smalling is more useful in the centre and is not that an effective option at right back). The rest then begins to fall into place - centre midfield becomes sure of what's behind them and they are not looking over their shoulders at a what's going on there and provides more confidence as an attacking unit.

DDG was left hanging on several goals - first goal he was unsighted - but nobody blocked the move or the shot (Rio/Smalling/Evans and Nani all can take some blame - when was the last time as a team we allowed that?)

Last few games we have played way too square in the middle - wide play as a result is easy to control and City did a good job of stifling that aspect of our game.

When we started the season we saw way more movement from the "middle players" with Young and Nani coming inside amd Rooney/Welbeck dropping back - now we are really static in the middle - interchange of the players has dropped right off - the oppositon can relax as we are not moving or interchanging as we were a few weeks back.

Does not change the result we gor beat (they scored 3 goals in the last five minutes as we were going "kamikaze" looking for an equalized - so game is really a 3-1 result. )